Words and more

Month, Day: Words, Sovereignty (Justice)

The Seven Valleys And the Four Valleys

Pg 29: The tongue faileth in describing these three Valleys, and speech falleth short. The pen steppeth not into this region, the ink leaveth only a blot. In these planes, the nightingale of the heart hath other songs and secrets, which make the heart to stir and the soul to clamor, but this mystery of inner meaning may be whispered only from heart to heart, confided only from breast to breast.

Pg 50: The story is told of a mystic knower, who went on a journey with a learned grammarian as his companion. They came to the shore of the Sea of Grandeur. The knower straightway flung himself into the waves, but the grammarian stood lost in his reasonings, which were as words that are written on water.

Pg 54: The denizens of this plane speak no words -- but they gallop their chargers. They see but the inner reality of the Beloved. To them all words of sense are meaningless, and senseless words are full of meaning.

The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh Part II -- From the Persian

#69: O CHILDREN OF ADAM! Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

#76: O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Guidance hath ever been given by words, and now it is given by deeds.

Remarks:

Meditation on Words, and all related aspects, during this month has been fruitful in terms of how blogging can be used to support truth. Yet, the blog is never sufficient, not unlike prayer needing action.

Modified: 07/31/2008

Words and questions

Month, Day: Words, Questions (Beauty)

That we can question is a known fact, leading to modern discussions about topics related to religion that can be more coherent and have a greater distribution than was available before the web.

Words enable what enables science which can then look at Nature, including ourselves, in a sense, leading, perhaps, to particular philosophical stances that limits.

A hard question needs to be asked about whether the Writings could open up an approach to science that would allow the broader view that will be necessary. That is, the bottom-up push via materialism and reductionism seems to want to group all types of religious experience into explanatory phenomena, like temporal lobe epilepsy.

Yet, that particular compactification (think of this usage as metaphoric) does not negate human potential. God never needed the delusional collective; the proclamations of the non-delusional have no effect on God.

The alternate view is much more powerful, which is always demonstrated through time.

So, what gives here? Well, this discussion will entail an interesting set of subjects.

Remarks:

05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.

Modified: 05/29/2009

Words and blogs

Month, Day: Words, Speech (Glory)

One benefit of our growing prowess is the web's facility to allow easier, and faster, publication. Blogs cover many subjects and are too many to list (technorati.com efforts notwithstanding, as how does one close an open set?).

So, along with the theme of the month, we'll list a few blogs that are of interest.

... John Taylor, The Badi Blog
... Daily Baha'i Blog
... Covenant Study
...

Words is about over, and we'll have the two remaining months of the northern summer: Perfection (8/1 - which is the only month whose start coincides with a Gregorian month) and Names (8/20 - which has much to do with the interests of the blog, namely how we know, including mathematics, and our quasi-empirical limits).

Pen or sword

Month, Day: Words, Might (Grace)

We all know that it has been said that the 'pen is mightier than the sword.' For one, the results of the pen can last longer which would be an interesting subject of analysis (most likely already done in several places). We are told that the tongue's effect can be like fire.

But, we also need to look at the ontological role of Words; for instance, such work from a perspective of the Writings would go a long way to shoring up the BASIS for science.

Remarks:

10/11/2009 -- Will, an operational imperative for science.

07/26/2008 -- Blogging is work, unless one just spouts. The idea here is to have coherence, eventually (via the process).

Modified: 10/11/2009

Word Is

Month, Day: Words, Words (Glory)

A description of the three stations is sufficient.

Remarks:

02/24/2010 -- Ascendant to Transcendent.

12/21/2009 -- More on the diagonal or square'd days.

Modified: 02/24/2010

Words and words

Month, Day: Words, Light (Majesty)

A mystery, this.

From the Writings along a long axis to our thoughtless chatter, can we ever comprehend the whole thing?

Thankfully, prayer is there.

Too, we have the greater achievements of poetry and prose.

Of course, there would be no science without Words and what is entailed by Words.

Modified: 07/26/2008

Questions and Mercy

Month, Day: Mercy, Questions (Grace)

This is one of the many Question days that we have throughout the year which seems to be especially significant in the month of Mercy. That we can question leads to science.

That we can do so independently is too tremendous a gift for words.

Remarks:

05/29/2009 -- The Transcendent baffles.

Modified: 05/29/2009

Power of Mercy

Month, Day: Mercy, Power (Beauty)

Mercy works many ways, as posts of late have tried to show. A New York Times column, by Nicholas D. Kristof, describes one example. He mentioned the fact that "millions of things could go wrong" in this type of case but that "when there’s a good model in place, they often go right."

Science and engineering are, in part, oriented toward betterment. In fact, they're important to the unfolding of an ever-growing civilization.

Yet, they stem from Mercy which gives us Power.

One open question would be how the Writings would influence our understanding of the "model" so that more things would be "right" than not.

Posted: 07/06/2008
Modified: 07/26/2008

Mercy and Might

Month, Day: Mercy, Might (Majesty)

One aspect of this would be those sole roles of leadership, such as the Manifestation being without peer, the Doctor doing as he wishes, the military leader making decisions, and so forth.

Democracy, alone, is contentious.

Would there ever be a day when the decision role could be from a committee? Well, yes, in one sense, as we see with the UHJ. Yet, from the UHJ to all others does not exist a command thread.

Of course, even in the command situation, of which there are numerous types, the individual still has will, to the extent that this is not overridden by various means that, when applied, are counterproductive anyway.

Modified: 07/26/2008